Ulysses contract (Commitment Device) Template for 2024 Objectives

Tightening the grip with a commitment device for goal achievement:

• Penalty setting
• Making a public pledge
• Promise to donate
• Achievement reward
• Using a lock mechanism
• Adding a switch device

  

  Ulysses contract?

  The term refers to the pact that Ulysses (Greek name Ὀδυσσεύς, Odysseus) made with his men as they approached the Sirens. Ulysses wanted to hear the Sirens' song although he knew that doing so would render him incapable of rational thought. He put wax in his men's ears so that they could not hear and had them tie him to the mast so that he could not jump into the sea. He ordered them not to change course under any circumstances and to keep their swords upon him and to attack him if he should break free of his bonds.

  Upon hearing the Sirens' song, Ulysses was driven temporarily insane and struggled with all of his might to break free so that he might join the Sirens, which would have meant his death. His men, however, kept their promise, and they refused to release him.